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1 day ago · The star, installed in 1717, bears the Latin inscription "Hic De Virgine Maria Jesus Christus Natus Est" – "Here Jesus Christ was born to the Virgin Mary." Adjacent to the Grotto of the Nativity is the Altar of the Manger, commemorating the manger in which the infant Jesus was laid.
4 days ago · The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feast day: Sep 08. The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months...
1 day ago · Adoration of the Shepherds (1622) by Gerard van Honthorst depicts the nativity of Jesus. The gospels of Luke and Matthew describe Jesus as being born in Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary. In the Gospel of Luke, Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem in order to be counted for a census, and Jesus is born there and placed in a manger.
1 day ago · In Matthew, Joseph obeys the direction of an angel to marry Mary. Following the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Joseph is told by an angel in a dream to take the family to Egypt to escape the massacre of the children of Bethlehem planned by Herod, the ruler of the Roman province of Judea.
3 days ago · The solemn definition of Mary's Immaculate Conception is like Divine Motherhood and Perpetual Virginity part of the christological doctrine, but it was proclaimed as an independent dogma by...
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1 day ago · Mary is very highly regarded in the Qurʼan, the nineteenth surah being named for her. She is called a daughter of ʻImrān, whose family is the subject of the third surah.
3 days ago · Early Celebration. Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Sts. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts, and Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable...
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